[GuardianAngel87]

I'm 10 episodes into Kamen Rider Black RX and I'm honestly somewhat enjoying what I'm seeing with the show so far.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by GuardianAngel87

I'm 10 episodes into Kamen Rider Black RX and I'm honestly somewhat enjoying what I'm seeing with the show so far.

Black RX's beginning is pretty weak. It gets a lot better as it goes along.

[GoldenXtreme]

Black RX is my favorite Showa Kamen Rider show, it's madly underrated. I hope you like it!

[Fish Sandwich]

Just got done watching Beyond Generations, and I thought it was pretty solid. My biggest praise definitely goes to how well-realized a character Century ended up being, which itself speaks to how focused the story is. It's not really concerned with throwing some big party for Kamen Rider as a whole, which is probably to its benefit, but at the same time, what anniversary elements the movie does have are generally looped into its own narrative smoothly. Probably not a new favorite Rider movie for me or anything, but certain aspects of it left me quite impressed, and there's nothing actively bad I could think to say about it.

[Kurona]

I remember comments from the director saying that to distinguish it from Super Hero Senki - another 50th anniversary Kamen Rider project, which celebrated its past - Beyond Generations was made with the intent on focusing on Kamen Rider's future. Probably pretty obvious given Century but thematically that seems on point from your impressions there

[FreshToku]

Personally I don't think Kamen Rider should continue for another fifty consecutive years, but maybe that makes me the kind of villain who gets kicked in these movies...

[TheRaizin]

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Personally I don't think Kamen Rider should continue for another fifty consecutive years, but maybe that makes me the kind of villain who gets kicked in these movies...

I'd probably be dead before they reach the 100th anniversary anyway

[GuardianAngel87]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Black RX's beginning is pretty weak. It gets a lot better as it goes along.

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Originally Posted by GoldenXtreme

Black RX is my favorite Showa Kamen Rider show, it's madly underrated. I hope you like it!

Thanks. Considering how Black RX gets unfairly compared to the previous series due to featuring the same main protagonist and even couple of other elements from it and how well-loved that show is, it makes one think it's like the worst thing that ever comes into existence and yet, despite a few hiccups, I really am liking Black RX so far despite a few hiccups and I'm already up to episode 21 and being few a episodes away until I am at the show's halfway point.

[cosmicrescend0]

Watched the first two episodes of Kamen Rider Amazons!

-Honestly, after hearing so many people go "it's the gritty one!/this ain't your little bro's Kamen Rider!", hm, I was expecting a bit more.....? violent? But all the gore and violence has been done tastefully.(So far, I do expect it to esclate, so we'll see) Really makes me hope that the "edgier" tone isn't just done simply for the sake of violence and they're using it to tackle more mature things not usually seen in modern day Rider.

-I know they're probably just going to be fodder for this show's body count, but like, I love the extremination team???? There's nothing better than regular ol humans aiding the heroes/fighting off a monster, yknow! Gave me Team G3 vibes, esp when they all wake up drunk and have to go fight a monster hungover. I grew attached to them so fast that Ootaki being an Amazon geniunely made me upset! (The van scene in Ep 2, fucking devasating..)

-The fights, are like, really good? Real beastly, real gripping. L-O-V-E all the fun wire work in this one, people are *flying* all over the damn place, it's great!

-Surprised out of all of the Amazons, I came out interested in our protag, the least? Mamoru's a certifed Good Boy, Jin seems like a fun guy, Haruka is....not much, as of now. Of course, it's apporipate, to be Scared and Confused, in this situation. I'm a bit sad we barely got to know about him pre-awakening, other than the little aquarium tidbit. Hoping he'll peak my interest somehow!

-I haven't watched the original Amazon, but I do have a comment in comparsion! I've always found Amazon's suit, to be quite cute, y'know? Very much shaped like a friend! Alpha and Omega are interesting re-imagings of the suit, I imagine they try to evoke the more beastly feel you're supposed to get from the original suit. I like Alpha's suit more, Omega's suit feels too...rounded? like they "modernized" it a bit too much.

All in all, it's a solid opener, feel like I'm ready to really sink my teeth into this show, so to speak.

[DreadBringer]

Kamen Rider Revice Legacy: Kamen Rider Vail

Part 4

So at this point, it's 'siding with the angel or the devil' scenario for Genta, obviously with Yukimi for the former and a literal case with Vail for the latter. Yukimi trying to not let Genta succumb to his inner darkness, and Vail convincing Genta to give in into his vengeance. Both sides have plenty of temptation, of how both cater to Genta's wants, Genta wants to have more fulfilling life and Yukimi already showed he can have it, but Genta also wants to take revenge against his family's murderers and that hasn't been resolved, and Vail revealed himself and what NOAH, particularly Agariyama were doing, purposely instilling hatred in Genta to use him as their executioner. Now Agariyama clearly has nihilistic outlook to think only hatred can make someone kill devils, and thus ruining someone's life for that, when someone who cares about others could fit the bill, they'd want to use Riders' power for good by killing devils for protecting others by themselves alone. But for now, Vail is the winner, taking over Genta's body, and it's expected as now Genta knows the real culprit and thus can directly exact his revenge right now after tirelessly seeking for it. Genta does want a fulfilling life, but that hasn't knocked his vengeance of his top priority yet, and Vail just made it easier now.

Yukimi displays more of her considerate trait here, other than staying to look after Genta which means she's not "stuck" there, to not only thank Irabu for his help but also be concerned of his newfound fugitive status. And she here still acknowledged the other NOAH soldiers as still human, in an attempt to prevent Genta becoming similar to a devil. And ong ago that she took a stray dog, of which the dog was named Genta and it was where the name came from. Which as Junpei noted, Yukimi basically saw Junpei as a stray dog. I wonder if Yukimi had done more of taking in living beings like this, there'd be an army of Genta (but more importantly, the gender of the living beings she helped). The "busybody" part of her staying to look after Genta also shows that it's not only the fighter that looks after others despite that they're the one that can save others due to their power.

There's already obvious speculation before of the NOAH Captain being younger Buu-san, and now the series officially introduced him as one. So he's already called that in his younger days too. Usually even without being Riders or scientists, people who have militaristic job are usually more competent and capable than average person, and thus is more 'useful', and in the main series, Buu-san was apparently just a regular at Happy Spa that got close to the Igarashis, but has excellent information gathering skills. A previous case of information gatherer in Build for Sawa was partly about how she was a child soldier of Namba (a part of her temporary betrayal too). And turns out Irabu too, was a former soldier, thus explaining how he got those skills from. And he got close to the Igarashis not from regularly visiting Happy Spa, but as said before in the series, already did before the Igarashi siblings even born, by helping Genta escape as per his resistance job.

About Vail's slaughter of the NOAH soldiers which actually shocked Yukimi, as well as Yukimi pleading Genta to stop beating up a soldier to death... so that'd mean Genta as Vail didn't actually kill the soldiers in Part 3 before? Despite the soldiers being thrown like a ragdoll from a Rider's blows. And then again Buu-san already shot several soldiers before to protect the main couple, so soldiers being killed aren't a new thing, unless it's not meant to show a similar outcome, but Vail's bloodthirsty nature instead. Actually I do have some questions about how Buu-san can actually contradict himself in his job as a spy in NOAH. Like, if it's a named major character like Masumi, Buu-san gives him a chance to remind him to redeem himself, but other nameless soldiers who are probably doing less damage than Masumi, they're killed without reasoning, but I mean talking them out first outside combat like Masumi.